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282) Pivot point
Author
Series
Pivot point volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A girl with the power to search alternate futures lives out six weeks of two different lives in alternating chapters. Both futures hold the potential for love and loss, and ultimately she is forced to choose which fate she is willing to live through"--
Author
Series
Manhattan Projects volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Originally published in single magazine form as The Manhattan Projects #11-15.
The Manhattan Projects is a comic series that started in 2012 from Image Comics. It concerns an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation--also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic....
285) Firebrand
Author
Series
Alternative detective volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Once a steeplejack, Anglet Sutonga is used to scaling the heights of Bar-Selehm. Nowadays she assists politician Josiah Willinghouse behind the scenes of Parliament. The latest threat to the city-state: Government plans for a secret weapon are stolen and feared to be sold to the rival nation of Grappoli. The investigation leads right to the doorsteps of Elitus, one of the most exclusive social clubs in the city. In order to catch the thief, Ang must...
Author
Series
Manhattan Projects volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Originally published in single magazine form as The Manhattan Projects #6-10.
The Manhattan Projects is a comic series that started in 2012 from Image Comics. It concerns an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas.
Author
Series
Westside novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Return to a twisted version of Jazz Age New York in this follow up to the critically acclaimed fantasy Westside, as relentless sleuth Gilda Carr's pursuit of tiny mysteries drags her into a case that will rewrite everything she knows about her past. Six months ago, the ruined Westside of Manhattan erupted into civil war, and private detective Gilda Carr nearly died to save her city. In 1922, winter has hit hard, and the desolate Lower West is frozen...
288) American hippo
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo...
289) Steeplejack
Author
Series
Alternative detective volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of the city of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically different communities live and work alongside each other. The white Feldish command the nations higher echelons of society. The native Mahweni are divided between city life and the savannah. And then theres Ang, part of the Lani community who immigrated over generations ago as servants and now mostly live in poverty on Bar-Selehms...
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Levins are a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey in an Alternate America during WWII, observing the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
291) A longer fall
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this second thrilling installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go...
292) Son of Hitler
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
What if someone told you your biological father was the most evil man alive? In the darkest days of World War II a female British spy handler discovers a rumor: that when Adolf Hitler was stationed in France during the First World War he fathered a child. Armed with stolen Nazi files, she secretly tracks down this son to recruit him for a mission to meet his biological father - and assassinate him. But that may not be the end of the Hitler family...
293) Devils unto dust
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
To protect her family, a young woman must brave the desert and a terrifying infected population in this gripping adventure that blends 'True Grit' with '28 Days Later.'
The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox-call her Willie-and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history about a young woman fighting to survive the unthinkable will keep fans...
294) Blue lard
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Blue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what's left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebrated book to be published in Russia since the end of Communism. Denounced as an abomination on publication in 1999—a crowd of angry Putin supporters gathered in front of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater to toss shredded copies of Sorokin’s books into an...
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Office of Publication
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate history of the American frontier where folk magic actually works, Andrew Jackson is a lawyer in Tenezzy, Napoleon commands an army in Detroit, and William Henry Harrison has named himself governor of Carthage City, and he has big plans to expand his authority along the Mizzipy river. But standing in his way is the Shaw-nee chief Takumsaw, who has no desire to see his fellow Red Men enslaved by the White Men and their like and who begins...
297) Rising tides
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 5
Publisher
Roc/New American Library
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
298) Annelies
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
" ... What if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? The year is 1945, and Anne Frank is sixteen years old. Having survived the concentration camps but lost her mother and sister along the way, she reunites with her father, Pim, in newly liberated Amsterdam. But it's not easy to fit the pieces of their life back together. Anne is adrift, haunted by the ghosts of the horrors they experienced, while Pim is fixated on returning to normalcy. Anne's beloved...
299) Distant thunders
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 4
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
300) Firestorm
Author
Series
Destroyermen volume 6
Publisher
Roc Book
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The Allies and the Empire of New Britain Isles now stand united against the attacks of both the savage Grik and the tenacious Japanese. But Designated Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Matt Reddy has a new foe to contend with: the Holy Dominion, a warped mixture of human cultures whose lust for power overshadows even the Grik's. Only a risky naval engagement and a desperate land battle can preserve freedom and prevent swift conquest by the...
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